Football manager, journalist and broadcaster. He was the BBC's first sports commentator and Arsenal Football Club's second longest serving manager, 1934 - 47.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Football manager, journalist and broadcaster. He was the BBC's first sports commentator and Arsenal Football Club's second longest serving manager, 1934 - 47.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Originally formed by members of the Glyn Cricket Club. They played football under various names, became Clapton Orient in 1890, and joined the football league in 1907. Their name finally became Le...
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
Wrote the forward to the 1942 biography of Octavia Hill by E. Moberly Bell. The Improved Tenements Association was set up in 1900. From The London Journal: "As a concession to the societies, and t...
Athlete and doctor. Born Roger Gilbert Bannister in Harrow. While still a medical student, he won the mile event in the Oxford versus Cambridge match four times between 1947 and 1950, and was a fin...
Dressage rider, equestrian, and writer. The most successful British dressage rider in the history of the sport and the winner of all major titles and world records in the sport, Dujardin has been d...